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Bangladesh-bus crash: Ten wedding guests dead DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) April 22, Rescuers recovered another body from a river in western Bangladesh Saturday, police said, raising to 10 the confirmed death toll from a tragic bus accident after a wedding celebration a day earlier. Late Friday, a bus packed with about 50 wedding guests was boarding a ferry when it toppled into the Chitra River in Narail district, 112 kilometers (70 miles) west of the capital, Dhaka. Only 12 passengers, including the groom, swam to shore. The bride was among the nine bodies plucked from the water before darkness hindered the rescuers' search late Friday night. Early Saturday, rescuers found another body, local police official Azizur Rahman told The Associated Press by phone from western Narail district. They also lifted the bus onto the river bank, but no bodies were found inside, Rahman said. Police were unable to provide an exact number of people still missing after the accident. Rescuers were using boats and nets in the search for bodies, Rahman said, adding that many bodies might have floated away. The groom was taken to a hospital in a state of shock, said Sultan Mahmud, a local journalist. The bride, groom and members of the groom's family were returning home
after the wedding ceremony that took place only hours earlier in a
neighboring district, the journalist said. Fatal bus accidents, often blamed
on faulty vehicles and unskilled driving, claim about 4,000 lives each year
in the impoverished South Asian nation. |
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